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The Woman King (2022) is a movie my wife and I caught in theatres last night. The storyline follows an African kingdom with a new(er) king in 1823 who posses the only female army in Africa. The leader of the female Army has a past that haunts her but the respect of her king, enough to be on his council. She strongly urges him to avoid the slave trade and find alternative methods of riches. Meanwhile, those who do believe strongly in the slave trade look to march on the kingdom and bring them down. A new recruitment class to the female army brings brashness, new ideas to defend the kingdom, and the female leader's ghosts back to the forefront...

This movie is directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood (Love & Basketball) and stars Viola Davis (The Help), Thuso Mbedu (The Underground Railroad), Lashana Lynch (No Time to Die), Sheila Atim (Doctor Strange: In the Mouth of Madness), John Boyega (Star Wars: Episode VII-IV) and Jimmy Odukoya (Mamba's Diamond).

This movie has so much depth and contains a great primary plot and even better sub plots. The writing is remarkable, thorough and very impressive. The character's inner demons are well portrayed as is their struggle to overcome them. The acting is out of this world across the board. You feel for every character; and if anything happens to anyone, you feel personally hurt. The villains were also excellent as is the outcome of each of them. The settings and cinematography is outstanding and there is impressive use of lighting. The action scenes are remarkable and the fight choreography is award winning caliber. My only complaint is an awkward love story that is obviously in here to show maturity and self discovery but I could have done without it.

Overall, this movie has literally everything you'd want in a movie - tremendous action, great villains, self discovery and character triumph. I would strongly, strongly recommend seeing this movie and score it a 10/10. We loved it.

The movie should be story of real life events as per description. However nothing that's presented here is real. Not only that but the kingdom of Dahomey's were actually a slave traders and they sold others to slavery. If nothing else this movie is idolizing slave traders.

The movie should be story of real life events as per description. However nothing that's presented here is real. Not only that but the kingdom of Dahomey's were actually a slave traders and they sold others to slavery. If nothing else this movie is idolizing slave traders.

The movie should be story of real life events as per description. However nothing that's presented here is real. Not only that but the kingdom of Dahomey's were actually a slave traders and they sold others to slavery. If nothing else this movie is idolizing slave traders.

It's a story that would be better told through an animated Disney film with an all-encompassing musical soundtrack (maybe it will one day), most performances are fine, although I thought Thuso Mbedu stole the limelight from Viola Davis who looked perpetually glum, while John Boyega added little and was unconvincing in his role. It's the kind of film you'd expect Janelle Monae to pop up in (but sadly she didn't). There are some good battle scenes, but there's little escalation and it doesn't really grab your attention and engage, although it did leave me reflecting once again how disgusting and disgraceful the history of this planet has been, and if a film can do that, then it's not a bad thing - which is what this is, not a bad thing, but not that good either.

The Woman King sounds like a great movie on paper but fails to deliver big time.

The strength of the movie is it cast. Viola Davis and John Boyega are great well established actors who also look great as General and King respectively. Nawi (Thosu Mbedu) and Lashana Lynch (Izogie) were also both great. So, casting is on point.

The movie has good production design and wardrobe as well.

The movie falls flat on its face when it comes to it's Cinematography- there's nothing special about it- it's basic coverage, no cool telling of the story through great cinematography.

For an epic movie with war/battle scenes, the action scenes are very blah. No cool action set pieces or fight choreo at all.

Ultimately, I think the direction fails in telling this epic story. There is no sense of scale or no sense of how economically and morally draining to the local people the slave trade is. It is just lacking emotion. The strongest moment comes from Boyega's last speech. I think a different director could have done much better with the material of this film. It doesn't feel epic at all, when it really should feel epic and be epic.

Unreal this movie is so bad in every aspects. I tried so hard to invest on the story but it's like the Hollywood tries so hard to represent diversity through its media. I found the characters in this movie boring and uninspired. There is no good chemistry and relationship between characters. I am so sorry to say this but i would not recommend it at all. Doesn't worth the time to watch this movie. Here's my question why these writers for this movie didn't care about actual history of Africa where they can tell the truth? Why they turned villains of this movie into heroes? As I said it's better to save your time watching something else than this movie.